
By Byron V. Acohido
There’s a tiny bit more to Cisco’s acquisition of Splunk than just a lumbering hardware giant striving to secure a firmer foothold in the software business.
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Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins has laid down a $28 billion bet that he’ll be able to overcome challenges Cisco is facing as its networking equipment business slows, beset by supply chain issues and reduced demand, post Covid 19.
As a leading supplier of advanced security information and event management (SIEM) technology, Splunk happens to find itself in the thick of a tectonic shift. Network security is getting reconstituted. A new tier of overlapping, interoperable, highly automated security platforms is rapidly taking shape. In this milieu, SIEM systems have emerged as the telemetry ingestion engine, of choice, to help companies figure out how to effectively monitor — and securely manage — hyper-connected software.
Last Watchdog engaged Forrester Principal Analyst Allie Mellen in a discussion about the cybersecurity angle